RI Market Tours
Shopping Federal Hill
An Insider's Italian Food Tour
With Cindy Salvato
Chef Cindy Salvato needed to offer her young culinary students an incentive for perfect attendance. Her solution: she offered the students a behind the scenes tour of the great Italian food shops, restaurants and butchers on Federal Hill, Providence’s famous Italian neighborhood.
Now you too can join this wonderful three hour food tour of historical Federal Hill.
- Cindy describes each retailer and introduces you to the chefs, bakers and ravioli makers.
- Along the walk sample cheese, antipasto, bread, wine, chocolates and cookies.
- Glance inside a 75 year old brick oven and watch local artisans make handmade chocolate and pasta.
- Leave with recipes, coupons and a new place to shop.
- Throughout the tour Cindy shares plenty of tips and advice about Italian cooking and how to use the wonderful ingredients found in the Federal Hill shops.
On your tour you will:
- Visit old world bakeries and Italian specialty stores
- Sample cheese, antipasto, bread, wine and cookies
- Watch ravioli makers create their specialties
- Enter the kitchens of some of the Hill's finest chefs
- Receive samples, recipes, coupons and more!
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